Tuesday, 5 December 2023

Holly & The Reivers - Three Galleys, album review


Old-School

This is delightful: wonderful vocals/harmonies and great instrumental playing. A debut album that reminds of just how gorgeous folk music is in talented and empathetic hands: Holly Clarke (vocals, guitar), Merle Harbron (vocals, fiddle, hammered dulcimer), Bertie Armstrong (vocals, banjo, lap steel guitar).

It is all superb, but the final three tracks are especial triumphs - Walking Boss, John Randall, and the most beautiful of all folk songs with a lineage of beautiful versions to which this has now attached itself, Willie O' Winsbury.



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